2020, the year the world stopped turning

Maybe it´s just me, but whenever a new day dawns, whenever I go for yet another sunrise run before yet another homeoffice day, whenever I look at the calender and realise that the year is almost over, one question is uppermost in my mind: Where did the past months go? To me, it feels as …

A Half-Marathon for Breakfast ;-)

Well, my marathon training certainly is in full swing. The final countdown has long since begun and we´re down to six weeks until this year´s Hamburg Marathon. So what does every runner do on a Saturday morning? Lace up her shoes and run three laps around the lake equalling the distance of a half-marathon, 21.1k …

The countdown has begun: 90 days until my first full marathon

What better way to celebrate this than to join more than 100 other marathoners and half-marathoners for a sweet 15k training run around the Alster? Sunday morning, 9:45am, -1°C, mud on the path, ice on the lake - ah well, what the hell, let´s get this party started 😉 You´re a true runner when your …

Happy New Running Year 2019

And it could´t have started any better than with my second run turning into a run for time and a new unofficial PB on the 10k distance of 1:01:17 at a pace of 6:07min/km - YESSSS!!! I´m certainly getting closer to my dream of running 10k in less than 60 minutes this year! And while …

24k-run to end this running year

965k - from May 1 until December 31, 2018, I ran 965k. Could somebody pinch me, please? How surreal is that!?! And 24.26k in 2:36:51 just because and to finish 2018 off right 🙂 In order to end this incredible year properly, I decided to find out what my running watch labels runs of more …

First marathon coming up

Crazy me is of the opinion that my move to Hamburg should most definitely be celebrated by running the HASPA Hamburg Marathon 2019: my first full marathon, less than a month before I´ll run my third half-marathon -> have I gone nuts??? No, I haven´t. I know that I can do it and what´s even …

The only limit is the one you set yourself

If there is one thing I learned this year, then that there are no limits to what you can achieve. Things you always thought impossible might become possible within a mere 8 weeks. Things you always thought you could never do will be done by you. Things you maybe dreamed of in your wildest and …

700k, you´re mine! 6 months of running…

... have resulted in the absolutely incredible grand total of 714.58 KILOMETERS run in training, one official 10k and two official half-marathons - HOLY SHIT! *sorry*  When I uploaded the data from yesterday morning´s 15k run and checked the statistics of the last half a year, I almost went nuts, as you can probably imagine. …

On track to running a full marathon

Even after close to 6 months, it is nearly impossible for me to comprehend that I can simply lace up my runners, get out and run anything in between 5k and the half-marathon distance of 21.1k just because I want to any given day. Over the last 5 1/2 months, I have established a routine …